Zendaya, R5, Jacob Latimore, & More Celebrate Radio Disney's Birthday

We are celebrating, clearly. You are in like a celebration mode for Radio Disney.

Yeah, all the time. Radio Disney Happy Birthday. Literally everyone who's performing and all of us hosts like we're all friends and like in day-to-day life anyway. So it's cool when we can all get together and do these things and it literally is a party on the stage.

What's cool about the show is it's very unique it has you know the whole laid back, low key vibe to it. It's very homey. So it's like all of you know me and my friends hanging out at home and just putting on a fun little birthday bash. I think it's um a very warm fun environment that we've kind of set. It's it's not like a regular show you know. It's really like a show that's kind of everyone sitting in their living room kind of chilling, relaxing and then we have fam vlogging in and our vibe. So it's fun. It's really sweet. It's fun. It's for the families, for the kids and um I think that's what makes it kind of different and cool. All my friends are here and Daa uh Fifth Harmony is going to be here on five. I mean we are really cool. So it's it's it's a great show.

And you're like in party mode for Radio Disney's birthday.

My two-two in my my party shoes. It's a time where we're very fortunate to have such amazing creatives and just see it all layout in front of us and and let it be a part of our our culture and our lives.

And then like music wise who are you loving right now?

Um music wise, I mean I listen to a little bit of a little bit of everything. You know, I'm not music is one of those things that like you have to just be if you're a music artist, it's really important to listen to everything. You know what I mean and really important to like kind of be in tune with, you know, the mainstream stuff, the stuff coming up, the stuff coming out, you know. So I'm really into that. I am very influenced by lots of tropical um growing up with it in my household being Dominican. Um like love that music by the way. It always just like makes me want to like go on a vacation somewhere and just like in dance mode. Yes enjoy life. Um and I love that. I've I grew up with it it's in my blood. So I've I've been listening to people like Juan Luis Guerra and Fernandito Villalona, Marc Anthony um but also I I love R&B growing up and being born in New York. So Brian McKnight, Maxwell um all the all that low-key stuff that most kids my age don't listen to form a part of my musical ear. And then of course like Pharrell and our contemporaries like Nick Jonas and Beyonce, who's the queen.

And then you toured with Selena and she's like you've said that she's like a mentor to you, right?

She's definitely someone I look up to. Um she she's one of those people like you watch on stage and even like when she gets off stage she's like, oh I messed up so bad. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like no one can tell you ever mess up. So um she's taught me a lot with that and um she's definitely she's definitely been there.

You have your new song, Smile.

Yeah. Yeah, we're really excited about the Smile song because it's one song that we've all felt equally very excited about.

I heard you're also doing a Sleeping Beauty play?

Yeah. And yeah, I'll be doing uh yeah, it's so much fun. I I started out doing theater. So it's going to be kind of cool you know to bring back my theater roots and be up on stage again. Um doing it at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's called Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Night. I play Sleeping Beauty, which is going to be amazing. I've always wanted to play a princess and I'm getting the opportunity to.

And your song, Heartbreaker around the room?

Yeah. Yeah. It is amazing. Oh, thank you so much. On iTunes right now and the video is out. It's crazy and I'll be performing it tonight as well.

But you are like doing everything. I mean you're a singer, you're into fashion like you know what's sort of like your next thing that your fans can look forward to?

Well, I mean speaking of Radio Disney. I'm actually having my own Radio Disney show The Ally Simpson Show. Yes. So that's what I'm working right now and I'm excited to you know be hosting this and then that beginning. It's it's very very exciting.

And fashion. I have to talk about fashion because you're like I mean you're pretty much a style icon at this point. So how do you keep it up though? Like you have wigs, you have like crazy different looks all the time.

My me and my stylist Law. We just kind of have fun. We're not really I'm not afraid of anything. I don't really care what like other people necessarily say or think about what I wear. If I like it, I like it and I'm going to wear it. So I just have fun like I think fashion is definitely not something to be afraid of. It's something to play with and enjoy and experiment with.

What I'm really liking people that know how to be chic and keep it simple. You know and be comfortable. I I love that. Um I think it's really cool. Um when young girls know how to you know stay stay yourself but have your own individual. Yeah. You know and and not do too much but still look nice you know, look elegant, keep it classy. Um I love that. So that's what I'm really into. I love like oversized things. Um like flannels.

Oversized things are the best though.

They really are. They really are. Um obviously you can tell by my pants they're huge. Um but uh yeah, I just I like that kind of uh baggy, urban look. Super into fashion. I mean growing up you know I wasn't really like I I just didn't know like I wasn't in the know of like how amazing fashion was. And now that I'm getting older, I'm starting to get you know more into fashion. Um my style is uh very like it's it could be very low-key. So like very bohemian type. But then when you know I'm out and I'm doing things it's a little more like girly chic. Yeah. Check it out. Check it out. This is this is style right here.